Managing variety on the retail shelf: Using household scanner panel data to rationalize assortments

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 122, Issue , 2009, Pages 155-182

  Anupindi, Ravi ^a   Gupta, Sachin ^b   Venkataramanan, M A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Integer Programming; Optimization; Retail Assortment; Scanner Data; Substitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955102159     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-78902-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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